Disqualification seems appropriate. If it is against the rules to use AI photos in a normal photo category and the winner gets disqualified for that, which has happened, and it is against the rules to use a non-AI photo in this category, then the person should similarly be disqualified.
Not sure if the person behind this actually made the point they thought they were? Because it just shows that being consistent in rules and disqualification is good and the contest was consistent.
The stated point listed in the article was to prove that manual photography has merit and that ‘nothing is more fascinating than Mother Nature herself’, which he proved by winning the people’s choice award. He didn’t say the disqualification was inappropriate nor did he criticize the contest for inconsistent rules? It seems quite clear that he expected to be removed from the contest after making his statement, actually.
Personally I hope this doesn’t become a trend of machine generation and manually shot/created work spoiling each other’s contests.
So, does that mean that AI photos have merit when they win photo competitions, as has happened in the past? Seems like the point he was trying to make would go both ways.
Sure, AI photos have their merit. I believe manual and ai generated photos are their own categories and can be appreciated seperately as such.
Why limit AI photos to being a clone of real photos? Push expression of the subconscious, the psychedelic, the eldritch, etc. Make something creatively unique from the photoreal, something manual photos would struggle to recreate.
The monkey’s paw curls…
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You’re right. I’m trying to figure out what all the controversy is in this. I’m not seeing anything.
Did you even read the article?
Did you? It seems to me the above commenter summed up what has happened quite correctly.
It’d be nice if you actually pointed out what in the article contradicts their statement.
This is Reddit 2.0. So, no.
The turns! They tabled.
EVP of Samsung, Patrick Chomet, recently said that “there’s no such thing as a real picture”. So this artist should object to the disqualification 🙂
how can pictures be real if cameras aren’t real?
Picture of a bird, no less. Nothing is real!
I’m also pretty sure the camera does use some ML algorithms in processing of the pictures, so it is an AI by today standarts.
his entry has been disqualified in consideration for the other artists.
What artists? The ones who’s photographs have been scraped from the Internet with no consideration or credit to provide free artistic labour to techbros and companies?
Or the talentless hacks who think asking a machine to draw them a picture holds the same merits as creating the image themselves?
who’s photographs
‘who is photographs’ makes no sense.
Gottem!
That’s what you’ve taken away from this thread? A spelling error? You’ve got nothing to say on so many topics, except for the pedantic correction of minor spelling errors or word choice.
Argue my point, not my grammar.
HERE HERE!! Proofreading is the last retreat of COWARDS!!!
nuance matters. brute
“Nuance matters. Brute.”
If we are playing that game.
u ran my comment thru an ai autocapitalizer whoooptie whoooop, brute
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AI photographer seems to me like an incredibly bizarre title
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His statement is so weird. No one said there is no merit in “real” artists. AI just makes it easier for non artists to add pictures into their projects. Like every industrial revolution it just takes work off of us.
I would love for robots to take over the boring jobs like making art, I think it’s a great advancement that our overlords have engineered for us. Now we can get back to things we really enjoy like shoveling shit and suffocating in mines.
Thank god they didn’t make robots more useful for everyday life tasks, freeing up a portion of the day. I have a hard enough time deciding what to do with my free 25 minutes every week as it is.
Got to go, my mining shift at the shit factor… Never mind they made robots to mine shit now, guess I’ll go starve to death in line waiting for free bread crumbs.
Robots and automation have been cutting ‘mundane’ jobs for literal centuries.
Artists are frankly out of touch and callous when they imply other people’s jobs should be replaced.
Or you could just… learn to draw? Sure it takes a while to learn, sure it takes a lot of time to make things, but it genuinely is worth it for the journey alone.
Sounds to me like the right thing to do would be disqualify the winner and cancel the category entirely.
What’s the point?
The artist proved that right now, AI art cannot compete.
If a horse wins an auto race, don’t give a prize to the #2 motorist.
That’s not what he proved at all. What he proved is that an actual photo can’t compete with AI. Literally, because it’s not eligible to compete in an AI contest. His photo wasn’t the best in the category, because it wasn’t in the category to begin with. It’s no different than submitting a photoshopped image in a contest for untouched photos. The disqualification was appropriate, because if he’s willing to break the rules once, he can’t be trusted to be a part of any contests going forward.
No, no, they’re right. I entered my motorcycle in a soapbox derby and won. Everyone agreed we should just light all the derby cars on fire and no soapbox derby cars should ever be made again.
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There have been years where a lower class is the overall winner in some endurance Motorsport races though. So your analogy is wrong. If a GT3 Porsche happens to be more efficient or if it’s a year with poor LMP teams, a lower class car can certainly win the overall victory.
There will still be class victories, but that’s separate from an overall.
Also classic car (historic racing) is totally awesome, the Goodwood Revival especially has done a really good job making racing exciting again. Their YouTube channel is really well done too.
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Sometimes the bet works 🤷
https://olympics.com/en/news/steven-bradbury-australia-s-last-man-standing
So, the photography competition that was won by an AI image shouldn’t have disqualified the image?
But the ai art won…
Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo
And did you read the article?
Did you?
A photographer has been disqualified from a picture competition after his real photograph won in the AI image category.
Miles Astray entered a real, albeit surreal photo of a flamingo into the AI category of the 1839 Color Photography Awards which the judges not only placed third but it also won the People’s Vote Award.
It got third
Just let the AI be the judges. I think it’s bullshit that’s not how it works
… do you think AI is…?
